Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner presented a lecture at the 34th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society on October 5 in Binghamton. The title of his talk was "Gas-Phase Atmospheric Computational
Chemistry," and was part of the Environmental Symposium. Kirschner's lecture covered atmospheric topics ranging from calculating anharmonic frequencies of small water clusters to exploring the reaction of the hydroxyl radical with methane and isoprene. This research was conducted over the past three years in collaboration
with Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields and by many Hamilton students, including Tim Evans '05, Frank Pickard '05, Meghan Dunn '06, Mary Beth Day '07, Marco Allodi '08, Kristin Alongi '08, Greg Hartt '08, Jovan Livada '08, Ngoda
Manongi '08, Daniel Tomb '08, Alexa Ashworth '09, David Hamilton '09, Jared Pienkos '09, Andrew Beyler '10, and Tom Morrell '10.
Chuck Borton, a laboratory instructor in the chemistry department, and first-year students Andrew Beyler and Tom Morrell also attended this conference. Borton presented a poster titled "Computational Studies of Ternary Aerosol Nucleation: H2SO4, H2O, and NH3," which was co-authored by Beyler and Morrell. Borton joined the computational group this past summer, while Beyler and Morrell joined the group as part of the NSF-STEP program. In addition to these three scientists, Kristin Alongi and Alexa Ashworth were also contributing authors on this poster.
